Music and gender on the Internet

The research platform"Music/Music Mediation and Gender on the Internet" is dedicated to the musical work and creativity of women past and present and to questions of cultural gender representation. Through lexical articles, multimedia presentations, images, interviews, music and sheet music examples, female musicians and their variously interlinked fields of activity take shape in words, images and sound.

"Music/Music Mediation and Gender on the Internet" went online in 2004 and has been growing continuously ever since. The platform currently offers 17 multimedia presentations on topics as diverse as "Music and the Body", sound installations and "Playing Women" and around 300 lexical articles on well-known female musicians such as Clara Schumann and Fanny Hensel, but above all on female musicians and patrons who are forgotten today but were renowned in their time.

For some years now, a change in perspective has been emerging, which has been stimulated not least by "new musicology" and gender research: away from a purely work-related historiography of music towards a history of cultural action. As a result, people who work for the performance, interpretation and dissemination of music, including numerous female performers, music writers, educators and patrons, and the places where they work, are now coming into focus.

Prof. Dr. Nina Noeske, musicology with a focus on music and gender
Nina.Noeske[a]hfmt-hamburg.de

Dr. Silke Wenzel, Editorial Office MUGI
Contact: Silke.Wenzel[a]hfmt-hamburg.de

Martina Bick, Editorial Office MUGI
Contact: Martina.Bick[a]hfmt-hamburg.de